Three choice lots from upcoming Heritage auctions
Animation Art
Legendary animator Marc Davis created this watercolor and Conte crayon drawing for the seminal 1958 Disney television show An Adventure in Art. Narrated by Walt Disney himself, the film featured Davis, Eyvind Earle, Joshua Meador and Walt Peregoy exploring various artistic interpretations of an oak tree, with each artist employing distinct techniques and styles. Davis was one of Disney’s “Nine Old Men,” the influential group of animators responsible for some of the studio’s most iconic characters and stories.
Marc Davis Four Artists Paint One Tree
Walt Disney, 1958
Watercolor and Conte crayon on charcoal paper
17 x 22 inches
Auction: April 5-8
Prints & Multiples
In 1970, at just 33 years old, Frank Stella became the youngest artist to have a retrospective at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. Although that show focused on Stella’s abstract paintings and drawings, he was also well known for his printmaking and is credited with inventing a technique called offset lithography, a method he used in his 1980 Polar Co-ordinates series. That series marked the first time Stella used new imagery for his prints rather than following specific paintings.
Frank Stella Polar Co-ordinates VII, 1980
Offset lithograph and screenprint in colors with hand-applied acrylic, glitter and screenprint on wove paper
38 x 38-1/2 inches (96.5 x 97.8 cm) (sheet)
Unique Proof (aside from an edition of 100)
Auction: April 16
Nature & Science
This extraordinary chondrite from a witnessed fall in Oyo, Nigeria, in April 2018 is one of only seven of the L3 variety in all of meteorite history. Low in metal content and exhibiting virtually pristine chondrules, the meteorite features a polished window display face, replete with an intense conglomeration of clasts of various sizes and colors in a green-gray matrix. Weighing just over 876 grams and measuring almost 4.5 inches across, the rocky mass is also impressive in size.
Aba Panu Meteorite End Cut
Ordinary chondrite (L3)
4.41 x 3.58 x 1.75 inches (11.20 x 9.10 x 4.45 cm), weighs 876.4 grams
Auction: April 24